Viola Frey
Viola Frey lived from 1933-2004. Frey created many life size
sculptures throughout her lifetime. When she first began making sculptures
she started with clay in the 1950s and the 1960s. She created abstract work
that would later on be known as California Funk. She moved to San
Francisco after studying at Tulane University. In 1965 she started teaching at
California College of Arts and Crafts. In the late 1970s she moved to a studio
in Oakland, California, and she started making her own work. Most of Frey’s
sculptures were about nine feet tall. She made male sculptures and female
sculptures. Her male sculptures wore a generic suit, and the females wore
1950 dresses. As Frey grew up she was surrounded by art books, and
overtime she collected about 4,000 herself.

Artists Name : Viola Frey
Title of Work : A Falling Man
Type of Artwork : Sculpture
Subject of The Painting : A man in a suit sitting down
Objects in the painting : A man
First Impression : AMAZING!
Colors : Blue, Green, Orange, White
Shapes Lines etc. : Curvy lines, Imposing
Light Saturation : Dim on one side -- bright on the other
Sensory Qualities : I feel bad for him because he fell
Interpret the artwork :

Joe Mangrum

Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant, Missouri. He started to take oil
painting lessons when he was eight years old. At the age of sixteen he
won a trip to India and entered in an art competition there. Mangrum
created hundreds of sand paintings throughout NYC. Each large scale
painting is spontaneously created by pouring colored sand in different
patterns. After graduating from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mangrum traveled for over four years in Europe and throughout the United
States. He settled in Laguna Beach, California.